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On the Wealth of Nations

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by P. J. O'Rourke


  2. Ibid.

  3. W/ML 140

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid.

  6. W/ML 99

  7. W/L 14

  8. Rae 286

  9. W/ML 28

  10. W/ML 47

  11. W/ML 36–7

  12. W/ML 39

  13. W/ML 47

  14. W/ML 95

  15. W/ML 250

  16. W/ML 61

  17. Ibid.

  18. W/ML 56

  19. W/ML 76

  20. W/ML 113

  21. W/ML 287

  22. W/ML 288

  23. W/L 570

  24. W/ML 87

  25. W/ML 274

  26. W/ML 63

  27. Ibid.

  28. W/ML 95

  29. W/ML 89

  30. W/ML 279

  31. W/ML 287

  32. W/ML 42

  33. W/ML 188

  34. TMS 184–5

  35. TMS 57

  36. TMS 234

  37. W/L 48

  38. W/ML 162

  Chapter 5

  1. W/ML 304–5

  2. W/ML 321

  3. LJ/352

  4. W/ML 314

  5. W/ML 32

  6. W/ML 349

  7. W/ML 335–6

  8. W/ML 110

  9. W/ML 359

  10. W/ML 353

  11. Ibid.

  12. W/ML 348

  13. W/ML 314

  14. Ibid.

  15. W/ML 349

  16. Ibid.

  17. W/ML 350

  18. W/ML 345

  19. LJ 518

  20. W/ML 355–6

  21. W/ML 353

  22. W/ML 552

  23. W/ML 423

  24. W/ML 341

  25. W/ML 343

  26. Ibid.

  27. W/ML 345

  28. Ibid.

  Chapter 6

  1. W/ML 372

  2. W/ML 376

  3. W/ML 376–7

  4. W/ML 360

  5. W/ML 361

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. W/ML 372

  9. W/ML 381

  10. W/ML 319

  11. W/ML 19

  12. W/ML 320

  13. W/ML 306

  14. W/ML 843

  15. W/ML 838

  16. Ibid.

  17. W/ML 146

  18. W/ML 145

  19. W/ML 145–6

  20. TRTS 55

  21. W/ML 391

  22. W/ML 365

  23. W/ML 366

  24. W/ML 365–6

  25. W/ML 309

  26. Ibid.

  27. Ibid.

  28. W/ML 394

  29. W/ML 395

  30. Ibid

  31. Ibid.

  32. W/ML 397

  33. Ibid.

  34. W/ML 399

  35. W/ML 406

  36. W/ML 374–5

  37. W/ML 803–4

  38. W/ML 804

  39. LJ 570

  40. W/ML 373–4

  41. W/L 19

  Chapter 7

  1. W/ML 409

  2. TMS 57

  3. W/ML 413

  4. Ibid.

  5. W/ML 440

  6. W/ML 414

  7. W/ML 443

  8. W/ML 31

  9. Alexander Carlyle, Anecdotes and Characters of Our Times, quoted in Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World (New York: Crown, 2001), 122.

  10. W/ML 415

  11. W/ML 416

  12. Ibid.

  13. Ibid.

  14. W/ML 363

  15. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 13.

  16. W/ML 417

  17. Ibid.

  18. W/ML 417–18

  19. W/ML 418

  20. W/ML 427

  21. Ibid.

  22. Ibid.

  23. W/ML 428–9

  24. W/ML 429

  25. W/ML 440

  26. W/ML 430

  27. Ibid.

  28. W/ML 440

  29. W/ML 444–5

  30. W/ML 446–7

  31. W/ML 447

  Chapter 8

  1. W/ML 552

  2. W/ML 456–7

  3. W/ML 467

  4. W/ML 461

  5. W/ML 530

  6. W/ML 521

  7. W/ML 498

  8. W/ML 485

  9. W/ML 629

  10. W/ML 738

  11. W/ML 737

  12. W/ML 498

  13. W/ML 496

  14. W/ML 319

  15. W/ML 458

  16. W/ML 479

  17. W/ML 530

  18. W/ML 528

  19. W/ML 526

  20. W/ML 409

  21. W/ML 421

  22. W/ML 569

  23. W/ML 531–2

  24. W/ML 532

  25. W/ML 581

  Chapter 9

  1. W/ML 723

  2. W/ML 725

  3. W/ML 724

  4. W/ML 726

  5. W/ML 731

  6. W/ML 745

  7. W/ML 736

  8. TMS 185

  9. TMS 232

  10. Ibid.

  11. Ibid.

  12. TMS 233–4

  13. TMS 187

  14. W/ML 728

  15. W/ML 735

  16. David Hume to the Abbé André Morellet, London, July 10, 1769, in The Letters of David Hume, vol. 2, 1766–1776, ed. J. Y. T. Greig (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), 205. Morellet was a philosopher and a friend of Voltaire.

  Chapter 10

  1. V. I. Lenin, 'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism,' quoted in Thomas Sowell, Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (New York: Morrow, 1985), 213.

  2. V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, International Publishers, 1939, p. 13, quoted by Thomas Sowell, ibid.

  3. David Hume, 'The Sceptic', in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1987), 169.

  4. W/ML 1026

  5. CAS 383

  6. CAS 380–1

  7. CAS 384

  8. CAS 383

  9. W/ML 636

  10. W/ML 556

  11. W/ML 477

  12. W/ML 637

  13. W/ML 636

  14. W/ML 660

  15. W/ML 629

  16. Ibid.

  17. W/ML 663, 665

  18. W/ML 618–19

  19. CAS 381

  20. W/ML 672

  21. W/ML 666

  22. Ibid.

  23. Ibid.

  24. CAS 382

  25. W/ML 1013

  26. CAS 382

  27. Ibid.

  28. W/ML 675

  29. W/ML 1028

  30. Ibid.

  Chapter 11

  1. TMS 291

  2. Ibid.

  3. W/ML 633

  4. W/ML 858

  5. W/ML 774

  6. W/ML 771–2

  7. W/ML 771

  8. W/ML 766

  9. Ibid.

  10. W/ML 766–7

  11. W/ML 767

  12. W/ML 768

  13. Ibid.

  14. W/ML 769

  15. W/ML 770

  16. W/ML 778

  17. W/ML 776

  18. W/ML 782

  19. W/ML 780

  20. W/ML 785–6

  21. W/ML 775

  22. W/ML 791

  23. W/ML 781

  24. W/ML 831

  25. W/ML 829

  26. W/ML 829–30

  27. W/ML 827

  28. W/ML 830

  29. W/ML 821

  30. W/ML 822

  31. W/ML 839

  32. W/ML 824

  33. Ibid.

  34. W/ML 855

  35. W/ML 839

  36. W/ML 855

  37. W/ML 832

  38. W/ML 857

  39. W/ML 849

  40. W/ML 849–50

  41. In this section of Wealth, Smith includes a lengthy quotation from David Hume, The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688, vol. 4 (London: T. Caddell, 1773), 30–31. In his
own footnote, Smith says that the 1773 edition 'differs verbally both from earlier and from later editions'.

  42. W/ML 850

  43. W/ML 867

  44. W/ML 852

  45. Ibid.

  46. Ibid.

  47. W/ML 854

  48. W/ML 862

  49. W/ML 888

  50. Ibid.

  51. W/ML 889

  52. W/ML 970

  53. W/ML 929

  54. W/ML 914

  55. Ibid.

  56. W/ML 909

  57. W/ML 907

  58. W/ML 919

  59. W/ML 934

  60. Ibid

  61. Ibid.

  62. W/ML 935

  63. W/ML 958

  64. W/ML 945

  65. W/ML 278

  66. W/ML 185

  67. W/ML 941

  68. W/ML 923

  69. W/ML 909

  70. W/ML 980

  71. W/ML 880

  72. W/ML 997

  73. W/ML 1008

  74. W/ML 1012

  75. W/ML 1009

  76. W/ML 765

  77. W/ML 669

  78. W/ML 745

  79. Ibid.

  Chapter 12

  1. TMS 35

  2. TMS 81

  3. Ibid.

  4. TMS 249

  5. TMS 249–50

  6. W/ML 985

  7. W/ML 766

  8. W/ML 767

  9. Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, vol. 1, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1924), 369.

  10. Ibid., 24, 25, 26.

  11. TMS 308

  12. LJ 181

  13. W/ML 868

  14. W/ML 1025–6

  15. W/ML 1026

  16. Ibid.

  17. W/ML 671

  18. W/ML 763–4

  19. TMS 187

  20. W/ML 527

  21. Ibid.

  Chapter 13

  1. Rae 372

  2. CAS 112–13

  3. Quoted in Paul Johnson, Intellectuals (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), 26.

  4. TMS 225

  5. TMS 163

  6. Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (New York, Free Press, 1996), 131–2.

  7. CAS 275

  8. ISR 310

  9. Rae 170

  10. ISR 227

  11. CAS 252–3

  12. W/ML 152

  13. CAS 269

  14. DS 72

  15. ISR 311

  16. ISR 416

  17. DS 97

  18. ISR 214

  19. TMS 199

  20. W/ML 185

  21. Rae 213

  22. Rae 211; ISR 210; West 146

  23. TMS 143

  24. TMS 23

  25. Rae 372, 374

  26. TMS 224–5

  27. CAS 33–5

  28. TMS 41

  29. Rae 156

  30. Rae 35

  31. Rae 288

  32. Rae 5

  33. Rae 12

  34. W/ML 821

  35. Rae 34

  36. TMS 193

  37. West 204

  38. W/ML 832

  39. W/ML 907

  40. W/ML 925

  41. W/ML 960

  42. Rae 383

  43. Rae 405

  44. Rae 289

  45. Rae 290

  46. West 187–8

  47. W/ML 889–90

  48. W/ML 970

  49. Ibid.

  50. W/ML 94

  51. TMS 280

  52. Rae 435

  Chapter 14

  1. TMS 235

  2. TMS 166

  3. Ibid.

  4. TMS 178

  5. TMS 384

  6. TMS 292

  7. Rae 96

  8. TMS 132

  9. TMS 139

  10. TMS 292

  11. TMS 244

  12. TMS 188

  13. TMS 339

  14. W/ML 945

  15. TMS 299

  16. W/ML 642

  17. TMS 293

  18. TMS 320

  19. TMS 210

  20. W/ML 829

  21. W/ML 828

  Appendix

  1. W/ML 110

  2. W/ML 422–3

  3. W/ML 793

  4. W/ML 124, 126

  5. TMS 136

  6. TMS 51

  7. Ibid.

  8. TMS 61

  9. W/ML 96–7

  10. W/ML 719

  11. TMS 334

  12. W/ML 625

  13. W/ML 800

  14. W/ML 387

  15. W/ML 834

  16. TMS 205

  17. W/ML 840

  18. W/ML 392

  19. W/ML 115

  20. W/ML 455

  21. W/ML 808

  22. W/ML 63

  23. W/ML 749

  24. W/ML 563

  25. W/ML 570

  26. TMS 60

  27. W/ML 746

  28. W/ML 376

  29. W/ML 468

  30. W/ML 148–9

  31. TMS 105

  32. W/ML 820

  33. TMS 185

  34. W/ML 821

  35. TMS 15

  36. W/ML 86

 

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